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Mark Marino, Author
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Targets

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  1.  /**
    

  2.  * NavigatorListener interface method
    

  3.  * Displays alert when user arrives within range of target
    

  4.  */
    

  5.  public void arrivedAtTarget(int distance) {
Function: method for stopping navigating once the traveler has arrived

The language of the code is tactical, even militaristic, identifying the waypoint as a "target," ironic as the traveler themselves are used to being the targets.  Targets for the border control, targets for opportunistic coyotes of the land and opportunistic wolves of the political airwaves.  

Paula Poole's photograph of the target beautifully captures the expanse of the brush surrounding a water station.  What is absent is the bright blue barrel, tagged with a broad brush, "agua."  The target is a place, though not a permanent place, as the water stations are moved on a regular basis.  The target is salvation.  The target is a patch on the blown tire of global commerce, a bandaid on a coursing flow of blood, emergency rations, salvavidas in a sea of dust. 

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TBMIDlet.java at line 347 - 350
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